hen night

Sometimes when we were visiting England and Mom was out for a hen night with Aunt Louise, Nan would put on fifties music, get a stack of novels for each of us to put on top of our heads, and David, me, Justin, and Nan would dance around her parlor until the books dropped, or one of us laughed, or both.

Observing other mums on a wild hen night while she was sober inspired comedian Sophie McCartney to make spoof Attenborough-style videos about parenthood.

The atmosphere was certainly more hen night than pyjama party - but in an era where pop stars increasingly stress their fallible, human side, it was refreshing to see the Spice Girls celebrating fun and friendship.

I keep reading articles about sperm donor or egg-freezing “parties”, as if having a child this way were not a series of sober decisions but some mad hen night.

Mr Mowat, 50, who said he had been friends with Mr Leslie since high school, said he saw him dancing with the woman in the club, where she was celebrating her hen night.